Patricia Heaton

The alcohol is doing something to my synapses.

They're disrupting.

And so the next day I happened to be having breakfast with a friend who'd been sober for about 30 years.

And I said to her, well, you're the first person I'm telling this is the first day of me never drinking again.

And she was like, well, she's known me for a long time.

She was like, what happened?

And I told her and she was like, oh yeah, I've had those experiences.

And so that was it.

And it was just like,

That was it.

And I'm very grateful to God for presenting me with that really embarrassing opportunity to kind of wake me up to what was going on.

And, you know, I think I've had an occasional sip of Prosecco at a Christmas toast or something like that, but I don't drink anymore.

Well, you know, what I find interesting about having, I would say, you know, having the drinking taken away mercifully, it happened before the pandemic.

Thankfully, because so many people had drinking issues or increased their drinking during the pandemic.

So I didn't have that issue.

But on top of that, I just feel like my mind and my body were being cleared in order to do something else, which was creating an organization called October 7th Coalition, which I created with a friend after October 7th when I saw the Hamas body cam footage being gleefully and proudly posted online.

And I assumed our whole country would rise up

enraged and in support of Israel.

And the exact opposite is what I saw.

Campuses exploded in support of Hamas, as did major cities.